Combined fender and net for street-railway or tramway cars.



Patented Nov. 26, mol. c. KLAAssEN.

FENDER AND NET FUR STREET RAILWAY 0R TRMWAY GARS.

(Application led Jum-a 7, 1901.)

No. signals.'

GUMBINED THE NORRIS PUERS CD.. PHOYO-LITHOA. WASHINGTON. U. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT' GFFICE.

CARL KLAASSEN, OF WANDSBECK, GERMANY.

COMBINED FENDER AND NET FOR STREET-RAILWAY .OR TRAMWAY CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 687,318, dated November 26, 1901.

Application filed June 7., 1901. Serial Nq. 63,636. (No model.)

T0 all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL KLAAssEN, bricklayer, of No. 2 Wasserstieg,Wandsbeck, near Hamburg, GermanEmpire, have invented new and useful Improvements in a Combined Fender and Net for Street-Railway or Tramway Cars, of which the following is a statement.

The present invention relates to a safety device for street-railway and tramway cars; and it consists of a fender attached and easily detached from theplatform of the car and consisting ot'- two beams placed at an acute angle to each other and provided with cushions and a net situated knee-high over the fender and rails.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the subject of the present application, Figure l' being a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a plan view.

Attached to the platform 1 of the car is an angle-piece 2, to which in turnl are vertically secured the flat bars 3, to the lower end of which the frame 5, provided with a roller 4,- is attached. The frame is made more rigid by the cross -bars 6. Fastened to the frame itself, whichis constructed in the shape of a triangle with the apex directed toward the direction of travel, and in the center line of the car cushions or pads of elastic material are arranged on the side bars 7. This part serves to push aside bodies lying on the track in front of the car. This part (the so-called fender) can also be adjusted in height. A

frame 9, of rectangular shape, is also attached to the flat bars 3, and it is likewise fitted externally with a cushion 10 of elastic material or with a pneumatic cushion-strip. Inside this frame 9 rods 11 are attached at right angles to the direction of the cars travel, to which a net 12 is hung or secured. The frame 9 is stidened by the railing 13 and is secured knee-high above the surface of the ground, and, like the frame 5, it is adjustable in height.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A safety device for street-railway cars consisting of a fender adjustable in height and situated in front of the car composed of a triangular frame and over which is a rectangular frame provided with a ynet and situated knee-high above the track, both being provided in front with cushion of elastic mate- 

